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Heads of State

Year of the Metal sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)

Syria: 1582/83 ( the year in October )

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • April 8: Mamluk Sultan Baibars captured the strategically important fortress of Krak des Chevaliers of the Hospitallers.
  • Mai: The army of the Seventh Crusade reached Acre and forces shortly after the Mamluks under Baibars to abandon the siege of Tripoli.
  • July: A Mamluk invasion attempt on Cyprus is repulsed at Limassol.
  • Proclamation of the Yuan Dynasty in China by Kublai Khan
  • Marco Polo accompanied his father and uncle on a trip to Central Asia ( to 1275 ).
  • Rainald I. is Count of funds.

City rights and Ersturkundliche mentions

  • June 6: Kitzbühel is awarded city rights.
  • First mention of Lüsslingen and Neuravensburg

Economy

  • The first penny is minted in Tirol by Count Meinhard of Tyrol.

Science and Technology

  • Commenting on John de Sacroboscos De Sphaera noticed Robertus Anglicus [ astronomy teacher at the University of Paris ] that it was the artefices horologiorum so far failed to produce a corresponding to the requirements of astronomy clock with a shaft that rotates exactly once at a Volltag.

Architecture

  • Master Arnold is detectable second erected at Cologne Cathedral ( to 1299 ).
  • Caerphilly Castle is completed.

Religion

Born

  • September 27: Wenceslaus II, King of Bohemia from 1278, Duke of Cracow from 1291 and King of Poland from 1300 ( † 1305)
  • Elizabeth of Portugal, Princess of Aragon and Saints ( † 1336 )
  • Ghazan, Mongol Ilkhan of Persia († 1304)
  • Henry II, King of Cyprus and the last King of Jerusalem ( † 1324 )
  • Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Tver and Vladimir († 1318 )

Died

  • Before 3 May: Poppo III. of Trimberg, Bishop of Würzburg
  • MAY 11: Henry I of Raron, Bishop of Sion
  • July: Helena Dukaina Angelina, Queen of Sicily (c. 1242 )
  • July: Margaret of France, Duchess of Brabant (* 1254/1255 )
  • August 20: Johanna, Countess of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence (* 1220 )
  • AUGUST 21: Alfonso of Poitiers, Count of Poitiers and Toulouse ( * 1220 )
  • October 25 or November 6: Henricus de Segusio, canon lawyer, Archbishop of Embrun, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia ( * before 1200)
  • Burchard V, Count of Vendôme
  • Gamelin, Bishop of St. Andrews and Lord Chancellor of Scotland
  • Conrad I, Count of Freiburg (c. 1226 )
  • Simon VI. de Montfort, Earl of Leicester (* 1240)
  • To 1271: Master Gerhard, first architect of the Cathedral at Cologne Cathedral
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